How do I skip the Page Template Assistance when inserting a $documentOwner value?

[Jose Estrada]

This should be added automatically when you create a template, not ask you to manually insert the document owner, that's the whole purpose of using $documentOwner value isn't it?

How do I get rid of this second step and made my template automatically fill that row with the person that creates an "Expedite Product Requirement" (this is the name of my template)???

[Stephen Deutsch · Accepted solution]

Hi Jose,

Instead of using a template variable (because Confluence has no way of knowing that it should fill in the page creator name in the $documentOwner variable), a better way would be to use a user macro.

Just create a new user macro with the key "document-owner", name "Document Owner", and with template text like this:

## @noparams
$content.creator.fullName

You can choose whether you want everyone to be able to see the macro in the macro chooser or just a Confluence administrator (the macro will still work for everyone if you put it in a page/template though).

Insert this "Document Owner" macro in the right space in the template, and then it should show the name of the person who created the template.

[Jose Estrada]

Wow! it worked, Thanks a lot Stephen, appreciate your help!